Educational potential of social work ethics

Social Work and Narrative Ethics

Most accounts of social work values contain two central conceptual strands: social work ethics and anti-discriminatory practice. Within social work, relatively little attention has been paid to the potential of feminist approaches to ethics, grounded in identity to bring these two strands together. Narrative ethics is an approach which, like the feminist ethic of care, takes identity as its sta...

Written work: the social functions of Research Ethics Committee letters.

Research Ethics Committees (RECs) are increasingly institutionalised as a feature of research practice, but have remained strangely neglected by social scientists. In this paper, we argue that analysis of letters from RECs to researchers offers important insights into how RECs operate. We report a traditional content analysis and an ethnographic content analysis of 141 letters to researchers, t...

Why social work practitioners need research ethics knowledge.

Social work practitioners are under increasing pressure to understand and use evidencebased practice approaches. At the same time, clinicians, scientists, and government officials have noted that only a handful of assessment and intervention approaches have been adequately tested so they might be disseminated for widespread use.To remedy this situation, a significant increase in the number of c...

Supervision Training in Social Work A Report of an Educational Activity

Introduction: Field education is an essential way to train social work students in their professional roles. Therefore, it is necessary to choose educational methods that create the opportunity for the individual to interact with the environment and gain experience in real situations. The purpose of this article is to report the training supervision of a social work postgraduate student accordi...

Ethics in Educational Environments